The Room

The Room

2003
Drama
1h 39m
An American black comedy about love and passion, betrayal and lies. It depicts the depths of friendship and relationships in one's life and raises life's real and most asked question: "Can you ever really trust anyone?...Are you ready to see reflections of your life? A successful banker, Johnny, is madly in love with his fiancé, Lisa, and plans to be married next month. His plans take a horrid turn when he finds the truth about Lisa and the people surrounding him. (IMDB)
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The Room

2003
Drama
1h 39m
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Rated 12 Aug 2009
8
84th
Close to immortal Citizen Kaneness. An epic tale of love, passion, lust, friendship, betrayal... "OH, HI MARK."
Rated 03 Jan 2010
25
3rd
I cannot stress this enough: do not watch this movie sober and alone. The insane dialogue and editing will make your brain hurt and you will feel a deep, deep sense of shame as each sex scene awkwardly lingers while bad 90s R&B drones in the background. But if you watch with company or with the help of controlled substances (preferably both), the film's delirious ineptitude will be an endless source of amusement.
Rated 11 Jul 2010
50
13th
It's like one of those late night Showcase softcore pornos except written by a space alien with no experience in actual day to day conversation who also happened to have a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
Rated 22 Jun 2009
0
4th
oh hi zero
Rated 04 Jan 2010
0
0th
There are only three plausible scores for this film: 0, 100, or perhaps 50 to average the two extremes. Each ought to connote great affection. Leave your stupid comments in your pocket!
Rated 12 Mar 2011
95
98th
"I knew this girl once. Had a dozen guys. One of them found out about it and beat her up so bad she ended up in a hospital down on Guerrero Street" ... "Hahaha, what a story Mark!"
Rated 26 Jul 2009
70
54th
The epic tale of Johnny, who said hi to many people, threw a football around, was torn apart by Lisa and kept his comments in his pocket without breaking in to an emotion. Fantastic stuff. Mainly because its so terribly bad. Like bad soft core porn, with all of the good sex bits taken out
Rated 29 Jan 2011
3
22nd
What happens when a mentally unstable humanoid, who learned everything he knows about women from porn and comic books, attempts to write a movie in a language he does not yet grasp.
Rated 04 May 2012
80
82nd
"Thank you, honey, this is a beautiful party! You invited all my friends. Good thinking!"
Rated 25 Jul 2010
30
8th
Watching it intoxicated with friends is the funniest thing ever - it hits the perfect balance between awfulness and hilarity that makes it so great and at the same time so embarrassing. Wiseau must have been dumped horribly and tried to make this as revenge but has no grasp on how to actually make a film, there's no other reason for this to exist. Footballs and sex scenes everywhere, and oh god, the flower shop scene is insane. "Hi doggie!"
Rated 28 Jun 2009
0
3rd
If I gave this a point for every pointless establishing shot of the Golden Gate Bridge, I think it would've gotten 100.
Rated 15 May 2013
3
9th
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Rated 25 Jul 2010
90
90th
Tommy Wiseau is an alien send to this planet to impersonate and study human beings. He doesn't really understand us yet, but this is his interim report.
Rated 20 Sep 2009
1
0th
Don't even dare watch this without Rifftrax. Spectacularly terrible. Maddeningly awful. Disgustingly excruciating. "OH HI DENNY".
Rated 06 Nov 2010
29
7th
Tommy Wiseau hates women.
Rated 25 Apr 2013
2
0th
This is incredible. Unbelievable. I can't recall ever seeing anything so bizarre. It is easy to see how the hype around this grew up, and impossible to imagine how it was actually finished - did nobody involved with this stop and say "What the hell? This is a trainwreck - shut it down". Thankfully, it is available for generations of film fans to destroy their own sanity with. You have to see this, although I suggest drinking first, and perhaps don't watch it alone.
Rated 06 Apr 2009
100
99th
The reason The Room doesn't get a 0 is because that area on the scale is reserved for films I genuinely despise. I have nothing but adoration for Tommy Wiseau's passionate tour-de-force that fails in every conceivable way.
Rated 27 May 2011
50
24th
I could have either given this a 0 or a 100, so I just split the difference.
Rated 09 Dec 2011
18
18th
"Uh, Mr. Wiseau... I don't think chickens actually ch--" "SILENCE! WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT FILM!? I AM THE FILMMAKER! YOU ARE TEARING ME APART! YOU WILL CHEEP! CHEEP, I SAY! CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP! oh, hai doggy."
Rated 03 Dec 2009
99
99th
This movie is absolutely fantastic in just about every way possible. The fact that one man, Sir Tommy Wiseau, managed to write, direct and then star in this masterpiece says much about the enormous talent and savvy this man possesses. This is a latter-day Citizen Kane that should have effectively changed the face of film-making forever, the only reason it didn't is because those who watched it were too scared of the impact this movie could've had, so it remains a lost gem. OH HI MARK!
Rated 05 Apr 2010
1
0th
Oh, hi Criticker. Okay so, this movie is awful but the 1 is misleading. I can't give it a high mark but with that said, I STRONGLY RECOMMEND SEEING THIS MOVIE! You are my favourite customer! God this was a funny movie but like one person said, it can be boring at times. Still better than The Anarchist Cookbook.
Rated 07 Sep 2009
87
96th
There's something called author intent in critical review, debating if it's important to audience's perception, understanding, or quality. The Room is the best example of why intent doesn't matter: Wiseau trying to write drama is ultimately meaningless compared to the brilliant unintended comedy but anyway how is your sex life.
Rated 18 Jul 2011
0
0th
Please, God, PLEASE see this movie if you haven't. "The Room" is Tommy Wiseau's on-screen masturbation. The most self-indulgent piece of shit ever put on film. And I'm sorry, so few people buy the "oh no, this was intentional, it's a black comedy" excuse that Wiseau has been peddling lo these many years, it's really not even an option. It's just the worst fucking movie ever made, plain and simple. The acting, direction, EVERYTHING in this movie is just horrid. BUT. It's fucking hilarious, man.
Rated 09 Sep 2011
10
2nd
BUT ALSO 100.
Rated 15 Jul 2011
50
39th
It deserves a 0 for being literally the worst movie ever made, yet it also deserves a 100 for being the most hilarious movie ever made (whether it was intentional or not). So I'm giving it a 50. I will say, however, that you MUST watch it with friends. It is beyond hysterical. I have never laughed so hard in my life.
Rated 05 Jun 2011
66
74th
Can't. Handle. The. Awesomeness. This is definitely the best worst movie. It had me laughing all the time, there was never a dull moment. Highly recommended.
Rated 11 Oct 2017
10
0th
The score's based on the filmmaker's failure to achieve whatever he seemed to be setting out to do, not on personal enjoyment. Watched with the right friend this thing lives up to the hype as one of the worst films ever made, as in so-bad-its-good. My particular fave moment was a character announcing they have breast cancer with all the anguish & anxiety one might feel ordering a cup of coffee. The only thing that works at all are some of the actors who might find work in a soap if they're lucky
Rated 04 Nov 2012
10
99th
You're tearing me apart, Tommy.
Rated 24 Mar 2011
50
26th
Words cannot describe this film, yet I feel it is my duty to try. This is the worst movie ever made and despite what the summary says, it's not a black comedy. As a terribly and utterly horrifically made drama, it is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Tears of horror and joy streamed down my face at different points during the film. This is most definitely the Citizen Kane of bad movies. It has changed my life forever.
Rated 01 Jul 2009
50
54th
Spoon!...Hi Denny....Who are you?!...What about your breast cancer?....Is Denny still on drugs?...Football!....But your his best friend!...No Johnny NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! God, this was some of the best/worst time I ever spent in a theatre.
Rated 09 Dec 2009
20
1st
There's "so bad it's good", and then there's "so bad it's amazing". I found my body producing entirely new kinds of laughter. Writer/director/star Tommy Wiseau is some kind of mad, narcissistic, vaguely European genius. Giving this a rating seems meaningless in this case... it's a blatantly awful movie, but I did enjoy it (albeit ironically).
Rated 31 Jan 2012
4
0th
It's a fun watch. His grip on the English language seems...lacking.
Rated 02 Apr 2012
0
0th
There isn't a single element of The Room that works. And yet, that's why it's so much fun. When there's a car crash, people turn their heads to see it. This is a car wreck that somehow managed to involve enough vehicles to take down the Golden Gate Bridge. The sheer insanity of it makes you want to watch. It's an absolute atrocity, but it's definitely worth your time; you won't see anything funnier in a while.
Rated 11 Jun 2011
50
10th
Staggeringly clueless and inept piece of film-making. Wiseau has made a gormless and woeful film for the ages, and his entire cast appears to eagerly wish to follow him in to the abyss. Hideous performances compete with a completely incoherent screenplay, which include ample opportunities for unmotivated soft-core porn sequences. Hilariously entertaining at times, therefore impossible to score accurately.
Rated 18 Nov 2009
1
0th
Jesus. Christ.
Rated 12 Jul 2016
5
4th
This kind of movie is hard to rate. The objective value of the movie is absolutely awful. In the sense it is intended, this movie lives up to its reputation as one of the worst movies ever made. That said, in an unintended sense, this is a pretty funny and surreal piece of entertainment. It's very badness makes it worth a watch, and it has a different theme and structure from most other good-bad movies.
Rated 14 Sep 2011
38
13th
I don't know, man. Tommy's anesthetized performance. The manner in which the mother definitely let's us know she has breast cancer. The english as a second language dialogue. The complete plagiarism of the Citizen Kane self destruction scene. Denny's lack of an extended sex scene. The multiple extended sex scenes. The random guy at the party who has a lot of groundless yet crucial advice to offer. The constant golden gate bridge/Alcatraz cutaways. Damn it Wiseau.
Rated 03 Apr 2010
100
98th
Words cannot describe how brilliant this film is. Godard, Tarantino, De Palma; all idiots. Wiseau is truly my generation's first visionary.
Rated 25 May 2009
0
0th
I give it a zero simply because it is so special it deserves a very special score. That and that objectively speaking nothing is good here.
Rated 29 Jul 2017
50
14th
"If a lot of people loved each other, than the world would be a better place to live" - Thomas Wiseau
Rated 09 Jul 2013
5
1st
One of the funniest bad movies you'll ever see! For all the incredulous incompetence that went in to making 'The Room', it actually had a moment where it called me out. The mother of Lisa enters 'The Room' and asks 'What are these characters doing here?' and I thought "This is exactly what I've been wondering since they materialized from out of nowhere and started making out!" On a sadder note she definitely has breast cancer. Don't feel heartless for not caring, no one in the movie does either.
Rated 07 Aug 2011
2
0th
Easily one of the worst films ever made. Granted it's hilarious but only because it's so bloody terrible. I swear Tommy Wiseau has such an alien understanding of human emotion and human interaction he must be autistic. If viewed in that sense The Room may in fact be a masterpiece of personal art therapy through rooftop conversation and repeated tossing of a football. Regardless, as a film, it's absolutely abysmal.
Rated 02 Apr 2009
2
0th
There are...no words.
Rated 15 Aug 2010
80
64th
I loved this movie. I laughed way more than I do with most comedies. My favorite scene is when Tommy buys flowers - I know it's short, but it's so perfect.
Rated 30 Nov 2017
50
24th
I have a hard time despising a movie experience where two of the film's stars are sitting behind me loudly heckling themselves while drunk college kids in front of me are tossing spoons at the screen. The Room is so endearing because it's so clearly earnest - this is 100% pure Wiseau crack, and by the end of the film you're snorting lines off the naked back of every rational cinema rule.
Rated 23 Nov 2013
1
1st
The Room is kinda tragic, because it's a movie about humanity by a man who's never actually talked to a human.
Rated 12 May 2010
20
0th
I wasn't sure how to rank this because...it's an AWFUL movie...but it's so awful and hilarious that it actually turns back into a fun experience. I dare anyone to watch this movie and not laugh until they cry.
Rated 07 Mar 2010
40
38th
Oh hi movie! This is so incredibly funny, I have no words for it. WHY! WHY DON'T I HAVE WORDS FOR THIS!? It's a rollercoaster of emotions, and so WELL acted! I understand life now. Absolutely LOOOOVED the music during the love scenes. So perfect. Ahaha, ahahaha. Ahaha
Rated 15 Dec 2008
7
68th
Accomplishes something so rare by being not only the best movie ever made but also the worst one ever made. Tommy Wiseau gives the performance of a lifetime (lol) which should've earned him not only an Oscar but a razzie as well. OH, HI MARK
Rated 28 Nov 2009
0
4th
I don't have it in me to rate this higher than 0. YOU'RE TEARING ME APART, WISEAU.
Rated 08 Mar 2012
50
19th
I'm blown away; shocked, horrified. It's everything you always feared existed but where too afraid to look in the eyes. There is only two possible scores: 0 or 100 - hence the average.
Rated 05 Mar 2011
5
0th
However, don't let the rating dissuade you from watching it. While it is bad, it is GLORIOUSLY bad and highly entertaining.
Rated 05 Sep 2009
9
96th
What a story, Mark.
Rated 13 Feb 2015
10
0th
Cheep cheeep cheeeep...
Rated 29 Dec 2010
0
0th
It's so bad you need to see it.
Rated 15 Jul 2012
50
26th
The perfect shitfest. It's simultaneously the best and the worst movie ever made.
Rated 14 Sep 2009
50
22nd
Well, you can't give it both 0 or 100. :( Therefore: 50
Rated 28 Aug 2011
68
75th
Rifftrax sucks pretty hard. It's a testament to Wiseau that I was still able to enjoy The Room regardless.
Rated 18 Feb 2022
8
5th
So wait, was Mark Johnny's best friend, and did Johnny love Lisa with all his heart? The movie was a little ambiguous on those aspects.
Rated 11 Jan 2018
80
83rd
After achieving midnight movie cult status, fueling both the successful book and movie, "The Disaster Artist", this is possibly the world's most notorious so-bad-it's-good movie. When witnessed alone the movie melted my brain, as it is nothing but a baffling, delirious, ego passion project oddity that induces madness when applied to logic. However with an audience of like minded people, the movie transforms into a comedy where laughter rains down like spoons.
Rated 13 Dec 2009
84
83rd
It's so bad and clumsy in everything it does that I just couldn't stop laughing. I'm not even completely convinced it wasn't intentional.
Rated 04 Jan 2011
80
83rd
Why so high? This film is so bad, so delightfully bad, that it had me in stitches. See, the problem with most comedies is that they're trying so very hard to be funny, and therefore fall flat. This, on the other hand, was trying to be serious, and the effort was so completely half-assed, so disproportionate to the attempted seriousness of the film's content (if you can call it that), that the combination of ingredients brewed generated what might be considered one of the funniest films ever made
Rated 09 Apr 2018
60
24th
After enduring years of memes and inside jokes this movie was probably already a well decomposed horse carcass for me. I did manage to get some genuine laughs out of dissecting it but it was about as uncomfortable and vulgar as that metaphor. Alienlike portrait of heartfelt messianic delusion and sincere passive-aggressive misogyny in the form of a bizarre deconstructionist chamber piece.
Rated 08 May 2013
2
0th
As the final words ask, "WHY?!?!?!?" [Sobbing in the background]
Rated 16 Feb 2014
9
0th
This is probably the worse movie I've had to sit thru. It's like a cross between a low budget porn, an after school special and a day time soap opera. It's the kind of movie that's sooo bad you want to see if it gets better but it never does, however it doesn't get worse either. It just maintains it's horrible crappyness.
Rated 01 Jan 2017
10
0th
A film so bad that is has acquired a rabid cult following. It plays like an atrocious take on middling indie dramas from the mid 90s like The Brothers McMullen crossed with Days of Our Lives. It's hard to believe Wiseau was being serious, and his performance is awful but oddly compelling as Johnny, a successful banker who is betrayed by his lover and friend. Bizzarely enough, Brando was supposedly his inspiration, but it's impossible to make the connection due to his extreme ineptitude. Avoid.
Rated 15 Jul 2013
85
87th
This is not a movie. This is a thing. It may very well be the most unique movie ever made, just due to how bewilderingly incompetent on every level it is. This is like if someone who has no concept of the film medium or human relationships was told to make a dramatic character piece, and as a result, it is one of the most hilarious and enjoyable movies you will ever see.
Rated 10 Dec 2017
66
74th
When Wiseau is off screen this is just a bad film with a muddled script, indifferent performances and bizarrely high production values, the sets, the cinematography looking strangely expensive. When Wiseau is on screen it becomes sublimely horrible; this is truly one of the great bad performances of all time. One of his atrocious line readings transfigures even the most banal dialogue into something strange, surprising, even beautiful.
Rated 23 Nov 2009
50
7th
It'll never replace "Bratz: The Movie" as my favourite "best and worst movie ever", but HAHA OH MY GOD
Rated 20 Nov 2011
77
79th
It was still hilarious before but seeing "The Room" on the big screen with a rowdy audience is one of the best cinema experiences you could ever hope to have. I spent 100 minutes having spoons and rugby balls flung over my head. UPDATE: I just got back from my second "Room" screening. I met Tommy. He groped and "playfully" strangled me. The man is a fucking enigma.
Rated 01 Mar 2012
1
2nd
You just a little chicken! Cheeep chip chiip cheeeuuaaaeee...
Rated 22 Jun 2011
100
96th
nul point should be reserved for films that have absolutely no merit. This film is very entertaining. As a backlash against those with sub-zero functioning humour receptors, I'm awarding this tragedy the 100 Percent Great Award For Being Great.
Rated 20 Jun 2010
0
0th
I'm fed up with this movie.
Rated 16 Jun 2015
99
99th
Exquisite. Gave only 99 not 100 because in one scene there is a small continuity mistake.
Rated 15 Aug 2013
10
3rd
Calling The Room a "bad movie" is almost a misnomer. Yes, it's absolutely incompetent at nearly every facet of filmmaking - writing, directing, acting, plotting, editing, cinematography, lighting, ADR, set design, music supervision, props - but no other "bad movie" provides the entertainment and, yes, even replay value that The Room does. Only Troll 2 comes close.
Rated 15 Jul 2011
99
94th
The best worst movie of all time.
Rated 09 Jan 2010
1
1st
One point for sheer entertainment. An utterly awful movie.
Rated 14 Feb 2010
0
1st
You will either love The Room or your soul will be consumed by its overwhelming insanity. It mostly depends on how drunk you are. "Oh hi doggie, Lisa is so beautiful, let's make love!"
Rated 24 Aug 2009
5
0th
one of the worst movies ever, its only value is that is (involuntarily) funny as hell.
Rated 18 Apr 2011
0
0th
The human brain cannot fathom how truly bad this is until it is seen. If I asked a 3rd grader to write and direct a movie with only him and his fellow classmates as the cast, it would have been absolutely 100% better than this film. People say it's hilariously bad. I did laugh, but mostly at how clueless Wiseau is to human life. I can't recommend this to anyone, but I have an insatiable need to talk with someone about this movie.
Rated 12 Mar 2010
80
67th
Maybe the best bad movie ever made. I have never seen a film so devoid of professional filmmaking technique in my life. The editing, acting, pacing, characterization, cinematography, music -- all crap! Looking through the lens of Tommy Wiseau reminds me of how a 12 year old views love, a job (he works at the bank and makes lots of money), and football. There are so many non sequitirs in the film, it will make your head bleed. Amazing, absolutely amazing. You will never forget The Room.
Rated 08 Jan 2015
10
1st
Popular opinion: this movie is crap. Unpopular opinion: this movie is crap. The truth, as always, is probably out there somewhere in the middle.
Rated 02 Sep 2008
20
7th
YOU ARE TEARING ME APART!
Rated 05 May 2012
50
22nd
a paradox at its finest: Worst acted, structured and technical movie-experience I have EVER seen. But probably the most laugh-out-loud time I've ever had in the cinema.
Rated 15 Nov 2011
1
0th
This movie TEARS ME APAHT.
Rated 28 Aug 2012
0
0th
A candidate to "worst movie ever" no doubt about it, but unlike most other movies in this category, its actually completely watchable in all its gloriously asinine incompetence.
Rated 02 Aug 2018
25
2nd
After watching "The Disaster Artist", one can't help but think Tommy Wiseau's performance uniquely genuine, but there is otherwise no quality present in this film (read into or actually present) other than the marvel of its absolute awfulness, which is singularly hilarious. So that's something.
Rated 07 May 2012
10
0th
It finally happend - I have seen the WORST MOVIE EVER (and I've seen "Hellbound" by Aaron Norris, with Chuck as the lead of course). Could there be anything worse ?? However, if this is just a joke, and this guy actually created a character called "Tommy Wiseau", than he's a true genius.
Rated 05 Oct 2013
8
0th
Brilliant.
Rated 29 Oct 2015
0
3rd
This movie is horrible. Its like a bunch of inexperienced film enthusiasts wanted to make a movie and just winged the entire thing. Literally I'm not sure if it is possible for a movie to be worse then this. So awfully bad that it's good. Watch it with some friends drunk for the laughs.
Rated 15 Jul 2013
86
82nd
An amazing movie to see at a theatre with an audience; the film is so terrible that it's good. Really fun if you interact with the film. SPOONS!
Rated 25 Feb 2015
90
68th
The Room is by all means a terrible movie, yet you can't take your eyes off of it. It's like watching a train derail. You will want to watch people experience it for the first time.
Rated 15 Nov 2009
15
0th
Incompetent on every conceivable level. Nothing more can be said. Just watch it.
Rated 18 Aug 2012
3
31st
Take out sex scenes, those spectacular Golden Gate Bridge shots, & guys throwing a football around and I think you have 40 minute movie. Entertainment value is mostly achieved through the extremes of narcissism that the plot steadily builds on until that hilarious finish.
Rated 21 Feb 2011
0
2nd
The worst film I have ever seen. Especially when you take into account the $6 million price tag ["The Blair Witch Project", it always amuses me to remember, cost $22,000, so money isn't everything, but it certainly helps!] The direction...the script...to call it a script is to over dignify this...profoundly damaging work. You can't say work...it's shit. Worth of less than zero, paradoxical as that is.
Rated 16 Feb 2019
25
7th
I watched The Disaster Artist firs; never heard of The Room until recently. This was nowhere near the worst movie I've watched, but you've gotta wonder about all the things that came together to form The Room. The scenes are shot like a daytime soap opera, the lines may as well have been independent soliloquies, and the plot has been done elsewhere with more drama. Juliette Danielle (Lisa) was the hardest working actor here, between dialogue and repeated sex scenes. Fav scene: Oh hi Mark.
Rated 29 Apr 2014
83
61st
The measuring stick by which all other so-bad-it's-good movies are judged.
Rated 03 Dec 2014
0
0th
Imagine a grotesque aftermath to a fatal, gruesome car accident. Guts splattered all over the highway. It's beyond horrific and ghastly. And yet you can't help but be morbidly fascinated by it. That's The Room in a nutshell. It's bad in every conceivable way. Bad acting, bad dialogue, bad characters, bad plot, bad subplots that are never resolved, bad pacing, bad music, bad gratuitous sex and violence, and the list goes on. And yet it's the one of the funniest pieces of shit I've ever watched.
Rated 28 Apr 2013
88
88th
A miracle of a film -- I have no idea how this film managed to get made (I'm keen to read Sestero's tell-all book), but I'm glad it exists. Odd acting, even odder dialogue, nonsense storyline, technically inept in all departments -- it's what a classic cult film should be like. I don't know why this has so many low ratings.
Rated 05 Aug 2017
0
1st
Watched this at 3am with friends and it did not disappoint

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